990117a Mayor's House, model 2269i01
99011701 Mayor's House, axonometric 3392ei01
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2000.01.17
Saarinen, Kahn and the Use of History
The other place in Rome that opened my eyes was the spiral entry ramp of the Vatican Museum. How come no one ever acknowledges that that spiral ramp and the skylight above it is exactly what Frank Lloyd Wright copied (or should I be kind and say reenacted?) when he did the Guggenheim Museum on 5th Avenue? Wright's Guggenheim is certainly creative, but it is not all that original.
What I like best so far about investigating reenactment in architecture, it the search for origins, that which is being reenacted, because it's in the origins that true originality resides. Kahn himself said he wished he could write 'Volume 0'. I'm not going to say that I too want to write 'Volume 0', but I do have real faith in its existence.
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2000.01.17 13:18
Re: architecting
Did I really say "it is only the present that brings time out of inertia"?
10011701 ICM, Horti Argiani, etc. 3392pi01
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2012.01.17 11:41
CONTOURS: The Divisions that Bind Us
What exactly are the indicators that "increas[ing] the value (in all senses) of architecture within the general culture" will indeed lead to architects being paid better?
It seems to me that you're presenting a solution to the problem of architect's low pay that is based on an assumption that lacks any real backing.
2012.01.17 14:32
CONTOURS: The Divisions that Bind Us
...the heart of the issue here is that you are still offering a solution that has no basis. How exactly can you substantiate "If the public did value architecture more, the way they value law and other services, then architecture could command higher fees without causing protest."?
The problem here is not about some imagined polarization between the public and architects, rather it is the (still) fictional notion that a-somehow-newly-engaged-public is going to raise architectural fees.
A new public that comes to value architecture more highly does not at the same time mean that this same new public then has more money in its pockets to spend on architecture or even that they then want to spend what money they have on architecture.
It looks to me that the real elephant in the room is that engaging general culture/the public is not a solution to putting more money into the architecture field.
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13011701 IQ11, Capitoline Hill, Roman Forum, Danteum, Basilica Maxentius/Constantine 206di05
15011701 IQ06 model (complete so far) 2392i97
16011701 OMA VRT Media Building
17011701 OMA RFK Stadium-Armory Campus
18011701 atypical atemporality Philadelphia model working data 2467i10
18011702 Center City Philadelphia plan in register with model 2093i75
18011703 atypical atemporality Philadelphia plan working data 2467i11
19011701 Mount Pleasant Acadia National Park HQ Parkway Interpolation St. Peter's Square 30th Street Station Railyard Olivetti HQ Milton Keynes Wallraf-Richartz Museum Leicester University Engineering Building Museum for Nordrhein Westfalen Dresdner Bank Venue Institute of Contemporary Art Pantheon Market Street East Development Baths of Constantine Salustiana Mall Gallery B Clay Workers Co-op MNRWF @ Franklin Court Arch of Janus Quadrifrons Museum of Architecture Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine A Souq Neighborhoods Minerva Medica Basilica of St. Agnes Mausoleum of Constantina Basilica Sessorianum Circus of Maxentius Tomb of Romulus 2109i08 b c d e
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